Hellspark

Hellspark
by Janet Kagan

Hellspark
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Author: Janet Kagan
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-01-02
ISBN: 0965834522
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Inc.

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Book Review: Excellent science fiction
Summary: 5 Stars

When the multi-planet survey team arrived on the newly discovered world of Lassti, small golden-furred creatures shriek at them. Physicist Oloitokitok tries to communicate with the natives in order to determine their intelligence. Interstellar economics is at stake depending on what the survey team decides about the native Sprookjes. If they are intelligent beings, developers will have to leave the planet alone. However, before a final conclusion is drawn, someone kills Oloitokitok.

HELLSPARK Tocohl Susomom is enjoying her vacation when she gets involved in an incident. She soon realizes that she has been conned. After three years of failing to understand the language of the Sprookjes, they need to use her extraordinary communication skills of a Hellspark to interpret the native language of the Sprookjes. Her predecessor was murdered, but no one knows if the culprit is a developer, a Sprookjes, or a team member? Tocohl knows that she must be extremely cautious even as she decides whether the natives are intelligent or not.

HELLSPARK is a reprint of a fantastic 1980's science fiction novel. The complex story line is difficult to read, but worth the time needed to fully comprehend this exciting story line. What complicates the plot also makes the novel great as Janet Kagan makes all the various species seem genuine with unique characteristics. Readers believe that Lassti exists with a thriving native population and that the Multi-Galactic Enterprises is struggling with its survey on the planet. This is a great tale that includes an intergalactic mystery that enhances an intriguing tale.

Summary of Hellspark

Murder, Mystery, and Interstellar Intrigue! Hugo Award winner Janet Kagan's Hellspark is now back in print! Lassti, a newly discovered planet, is the center of political intrigue. Recently, Oloitokitok, the planet survey team's physicist was found dead. Was he killed? If so, by who? One of his fellow surveyors? Or by one of the Sprookjes, the birdlike natives of Lassti? Are the Sprookjes intelligent? If so, then parties that want the planet for development will lose it. Why is the survey team having so much trouble finding out? Into this situation arrives Tocohl, a Hellspark trader who just wanted to have a vacation on Sheveschke at the St. Veschke festival. After being attacked, rescuing a young woman, and going before a judge, Tocohl has learned all she ever wanted to know about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now she is on her way to find Lasti to find answers to the mysteries there.

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